Carriers in Pounds shipyard

[ron]

Here are a few carriers that I saw on a trip to the UK in Pounds shipyard at Portsmouth in years gone by, If you like them I will post more, it really was a treasure house in those days, Regards Ron
By the way this must have been the best carrier in the yard as it had been placed there upside down years befor, also the large round balls that you see and the cables,there were hundreds of the balls that were floats used to suspend submarine cables attached to those cables

Carriers everwhere

By the way all of the carriers and tanks were unloaded out side of the yard and driven into the yard, they were all runners when Pounds got them

[ron]

I took this to show you how complete they were

There were bits and pieces everwhere that you looked

there must have been tousands of tons of those cables in the yard
well this is the last pic tonight I hope that you enjoy them I have many more if you wish to see them,

Regards Ron

[Niels V]

Hi
has the yard been cleared ore are they still there.
and please post more pictures
cheers Niels

[ron]

Hi Niels,
Thanks for your reply, I think that by now the yard would be cleared out,

[Niels V]

Do you know what happende to all the things? where they saved og scraped?

[ron]

Hi Niels,
I dont know about all of the items but a lot of them were saved. the price of steel at that time had fallen and the owner Tony told me that it was not worth it to cut them up at time,he also liked owning them, in fact tomorrow I will post a couple of pics of two Russian tanks that arrived whilst we were talking they were complete in all ways straight from the docks, no torch work had been done even had the crews helmits inside, the gates were closed work ceased and the tanks were given a try out around the yard, now thats what you call a great day out, Regards Ron